'Verse - Eastport City Mall

Eastport City Mall or just simply "Eastport Mall" was originally an massive shopping complex with over 1,900,000 square foot of shopping spaces by 1979. The mall features indoor and outdoor stores, a miniature monorail system that shuttles shoppers around the complex. But the expansion plans in 2000 increased it to 7,000,000 square feet. The expansion project was called the Millennium Mall Expansion Project (MMEP) and cost over 20 billion USD to upgrade, expand and turn it into world's largest shopping mall.

Department Stores:

Behind the Scenes:
The majority of Eastport City Mall is inspired by the two malls that I was familiar with when growing up: the Lansing Mall and the Meridian Mall. Other sources of inspirations for the mall includes:


 * Dubai Mall - For its sheer size and 1,200 stores. Dubai Mall has 5,400,000 square feet of retail space, Aquarium, Underwater Zoo, VR park,
 * Glendale Galleria - For the multi-leveled design and the stores within it. Glendale Galleria has 1.6 million square feet of retail space.

Retail/Store Inspirations:


 * Lansing Mall:
 * Sbarro
 * Meridian Mall:
 * Sbarro
 * Glendale Galleria: